Crochet Wedding Bouquet

Hiya

I don't have a pattern - but have you looked on Ravelry? There are loads of free crochet patterns on there - I've used quite a few from there before. In fact, I'm crocheting our wedding favours at the moment (snowflake christmas tree ornaments for our winter wedding) from a ravelry pattern.

The website is: http://www.ravelry.com

:-)

I'm crocheting the bouquets and the buttonholes - I had seen this picture on Pinterest, as well as the amazing one on the according to Matt blog.

It's a very time-consuming way to make a bouquet! Each flower has taken half an hour and I have over 100 of them now... Plus some bigger ones for buttonholes, which each required a stem making, and some leaves. The flowers in the bouquet have all had a pearl stitched into the middle, and then I've stitched each one onto a drinking straw to create the stem.

I did try to pin them all onto a polystyrene hemisphere but couldn't find a good way of making a handle. Red Heart have a tutorial here which might help: http://www.redheart.com/files/patterns/pdf/LC3539.pdf

I used the Attic 24 pattern for inspiration, and a tea cosy rose pattern for buttonholes.

Here is a rough idea of how it will look, with more whites and paler pinks:

Hi Arpee

Thanks very much for your reply... I love how your roses look, they are really special and the colours are similar to what mine are going to be, probably without the darker pink roses.

So can I just ask... I have looked at the Red Heart link, is that the pattern you have used for the roses that you have already done. The only reason I am asking is that yours look much fuller than the ones on the Red Heart site? What wool have you used? Double knit?? I had thought that I might be able to put the roses into a bouquet oasis that you can get from the florist which is basically an oasis which is surrounded by a plastic outer and includes a handle. I was thinking that I might be able to purchase some long quilting pins which have pearl heads on them and use them to attach it to said oasis.

My wedding is not until next year so I have time to get on with the three that I would need to make! I was thinking that if I get my act together I could take them on hols this year (July) and crack on with them in the evenings when I haven't got the usual household jobs to do that I have when I am at home.

Anyway.... digressing .... the roses that you have are just what I am looking for so if it is the Red Heart pattern for roses that you have used then I will definitely give them a go.

I will have a look now and see if I can find some piccies of buttonholes and try and find a tea cosy pattern lol

I must admit I hadn't thought about crochet button holes but its something I might look into as I haven't seen any before.

Thanks again

BBC2B Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

The Red Heart tutorial was just guidance for how to put it together. I also looked at getting a bouquet oasis and using pearl-headed pins but I wasn't convinced they'd stay put.

I've found the links to the patterns I used for inspiration:

http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/may-roses.html

http://whydidntanyonetellme.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/sharing-tea-cosy-love.html

I tried Stylecraft Special DK but it had too fuzzy a finish so I opted for cotton instead. I used a 3.5mm hook with Scheepjes Catona in five different shades.

I have this one in my ravelry library ready to try make,

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bouquet-de-mariee

Thank you all soooo very much for your help and advice. I bet you cant guess what I will be doing this weekend lol!

I am going to buy some cotton and have a practice before I start buying lots of different shades of pink.

I will keep you all updated.

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